Re: Troubles with Vim

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 10:42 +0000, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> I compiled a newer version of Vim and it has completely changed the
> way 
> it works. I used to have a status indicator at the bottom of the
> window 
> showing 'Insert', 'Replace' or ':'. That has disappeared and wierd 
> things happen with certain keystrokes: Left Arrow INSERTS a 'd'..etc.
> 
> I cannot make sense of which settings would return this to the
> standard 
> setup which Fedora installed. Help! 
vim works for mr and I have the following rpms installed:

vim-common-7.1.12-1.fc7
vim-enhanced-7.1.12-1.fc7
vim-minimal-7.1.12-1.fc7

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